Shh! You'll wake the thought police!

I have to admit that I'm having a hard time thinking about much other than my disappointment in this country, but here I try anyway. Thanksgiving is also on my mind and my aversion to a political discussion with my step father. I feel that he has been so blindsided with ridiculous theories that there is no saving him. The tea party is not what you think it is dear heart. See, I just can't focus! Although this disappointment does have influence on my disappointment with American popular religion. It is very few and far between I meet a real Christian. So many are so unchrist like, and use the phrase "I'm christian" as this theological leverage in discussions. Case in point, politicians. How many times have you heard the phrase "I'm Christian" flow from their mouths? No reasonable person would believe this garbage. They do nothing that would be considered Christ like, at all...ever. I'll be honest here I've met one, perhaps two, people who call themselves Christian that actually are. That's not a good track record. American Christianity is so fragmented that I'm not sure it can even be called a religion. So many sects of Christianity, thus so called Christians, have become politicized, as I mentioned....when that happens it stands to reason that it is no longer a religion. Every Christian sect will provide you with a different answer to what it means to be Christian, and I feel this makes the whole religion as a whole incredibly weak. When a religion fragments and becomes to secular, is it still a religion? Does saying "I'm Christian" even provide anyone with a ethical level up over someone else? That's what it implies. Lets say I'm throwing out some ridiculous theory about any ethical issue, really, I almost faithfully hear "Well, I'm a Christian so....." There is so very few reasons to start a point like that, but to gain ethical leverage. Starting a conversation with "Well, I'm a Pagan so..." does not seem to have the same effect! Don't mistake me! I love religious people, truly religious people. I'm not one to judge whether someone who says their of a specific faith perfectly exemplifies said faith. People are not perfect, but there's a certain level of faith and "goodness" that a person follows to be even a little truly religious. I love to discuss what it means to be religious, dissect weird notions and change my own philosophies. I'm always open to change, it's one of the few blessings my personality and sordid history have afforded me. Having very little sturdy life foundation is not one of my favorite aspects about me, but it does leave me a fairly clean slate. Anyway, I ramble about strange things, especially at night. It's midnight...